How To Get Through Security Fast

So I’ve flown a lot in the past couple years and in that time I have gotten pretty good at going through security fast. Many of those times I had TSAPre so that helped things a lot but even now I’ve been doing pretty well. Here is how I have gotten through security so fast on this trip.

Tip #1 Research how things should be brought on a plane

For example, anything containing lithium batteries should be in your carry on. If you can, remove the batteries and tape the poles. Blenders should go in your checked baggage, same with tamari sauce. Look up basically anything you are at all curious about. I looked up all sorts of stuff such as kale, blenders, batteries, screwdrivers, EpiPens, and more.

Tip #2 Understand how things are scanned

Belts, shoes, jackets, laptops, and tablets must be scanned separately. Liquids must also be scanned separately but for this trip all mine were in my checked bag. Usually I carry my boarding pass and ID in my hand, but when I was going through security at LAX to get on the flight to Japan the guy there told me to put my passport in my bag. While in line I put my phone and anything else in my pockets in my bag as well as took off my jacket and put it in my bag. Took off my shoes as soon as I got near the loading area, grabbed a bin and threw my laptop and shoes in there, then put my two bags on the belt and moved them along.

Tip #3 Grab and go

As soon as my bags were out of the scanner I pulled them off and put them on the ground. You can also just take the whole bin with your shoes, laptop, and whatever else in it and move away from the machine to put everything back together. The guy in front of me had a lot of baggage so stuff was starting to stack up but since I got my stuff out of there quickly so it wasn’t a problem. Once you have your stuff, move over to the benches and finish putting all your stuff back to where it was.